[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49718] Octave crashes on print/saveas etc when installed on a directory with parenthesis

[Armin Müller]

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #49718 (project octave):

I had a similar problem here with space characters:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43534
"Octave shouldn't be installed in a path containing spaces. Just live with
it."
(Here again in comment #3)

The fix was to prohibit space characters in the path which is checked at
install time under Windows (when using the installer).
(Here again in comment #8)

Now there are other exemptions like parenthesis (#49718), German
Umlaut-characters (#42036), French accents (#40239), Japanese characters
(#44922) etc., ending in a common subset for POSIX portable filename
characters.

Personally, I'm not happy with this. Whatever the operating system is allowing
should be allowed, too.

At the end, there should IMHO be a clear design decision, either:
* Octave accepts anything legal on the underlying OS for paths, installation
folder, working folder, *.m file names, etc. (in every aspect of program
usage)
* Octave sticks to the lowest common denominator, the character set of POSIX
"Fully portable filenames"
Anything in between might lead to an infinite loop with repeated, slightly
deviating bug reports.

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